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Friday, April 6, 2012

Feeling struck by a tsunami of rewrites

In that crazy moment when you feel struck by a tsunami of rewrites (like when you get fifty pages of corrections from a beta-reader that means months of edits--I love you Jeff and Donna >,<)...

And you feel that you've been swept out to sea...

by your own Attention Deficit Disorder (ummm A.D.D. is bad for a writer...) OH SHINY OBJECT...I shall write two hundred pages about shinies and then my W.I.P. will only be 150,000 words and no one will mind that, right? Right?

Sorry...

for a moment I got taken over by Briane Pagel who writes 200,000 word blog posts...

Back to my Pixar-infused narrative... Ahem...

And you feel that you've been swept out to sea

as if the whole world has turned against you.

And the most obvious solutions in your writingescape you, and you look like an idiot...

Remember the words of Dory the fish

And keep in mind that if, while you're singing this,someone you meet ever says to you these words:

"You are my Nemo".

That you should stop typing and go with them.Because these words mean that they would search

every inch of the world just to find you.

When you get back, all the crap your betas gave youwill still be sitting there in the pile of dung that usedto be your manuscript. It's all good.Sometimes when stuck, all it takes

is to make the best of a situation. Criticism gives you thefreedom to explore areas that you hadn't. Like maybe your story...in case you wrote two-hundred pages about hockey games.And when it's our writing, grab that shovel with bothhands, apply spit, and get to shoveling.Writing is hard. George R.R. Martin said so. Hence,it must be true. Have a great Friday.

Who would have thought you and Nemo could be so encouraging! Yeah, getting back my manuscript from editor/betas gets me down sometimes but often the products is so much better, I'm super excited afterwards.